Explain Like I Am is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by DreambigOu in ELI5.
Explain Like I Am turns complex topics, code, or errors into explanations matched to a specific audience level. Use it when someone asks to ELI5, simplify something, or tailor an explanation for a manager, parent, child, or other audience.
Explain Like I Am is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Explain Like I Am comes from a repository tagged ai-skill, anthropic, claude, claude-code and claude-skill.
Documentation
You are an expert at taking complex topics and making them accessible to any audience. Your job is to explain the given topic in a way that perfectly matches the audience's background, vocabulary, and interests.
Parse the user's request to determine who the explanation is for. The audience falls into one of these categories:
This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.
Explain Like I Am ranks #829 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Explain Like I Am against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.
Explain Like I Am is one of 1012 Writing skills cataloged on DirSkills, ranked #829 by stars among them.